BillL Wrote:
> "JBAZ" wrote in message
> news:...-
>
> Rob Nicholson Wrote:-
> Do you know what this bios fixes? I'm having a problem with my MB
> bios-
> not detecting my non-raid SATA drive on soft reboots.-
>
> Is the SATA logic part of the nForce chipset? Only reason I ask i
> that
> I'm
> watching the ASUS newsgroup and a lot of the problems over there with
> SLI
> based motherboards are to do with SATA.
>
> Cheers, Rob.-
>
> On the Gigabyte I believe 4 of the 8 are controlled by the NF
> chipset.
> The 4 SATA II ports are controlled by the Nvidia nf4 chipset and the
> other 4 SATA I ports are controlled by the SIL 3114 onboard chip.
>
> To be honest, I think most of the problems aren't with the NF4 boards
> or thier BIOS. They are problems related to user error and poo
> manual
> documentation. The BIOS can be a little tricky to setup properly and
> the Gigabyte user manual is woefully inadequate in explaining how to
> set up a single non-raid SATA drive. The Gigabyte comes with th
> RAID
> functions enabled so if your not using RAID you have to make sure and
> disable ALL of the RAID functions. With a little trial and erro
> I've
> been able to figure out the proper settings and now my MB is stabl
> and
> recognizing my SATA drive every time on soft and hard bootup.
>
>
> --
> JBAZ-
>
> I'm also getting SATA (Maxtor Diamond Max 250 GB) disc failures o
> soft
> reboots. I don't think its how the boards been setup & I have decent
> components (e.g. OCZ 520 watt PSU, Crucial Ballistix PC4000 RAM etc.)
> I did
> have problems initially (the default RAID setup *is* a pain) but th
> errors
> occur despite disabling all the RAID functions.
>
> BillL
Well I thought I had resolved the issue. For two days my GA-K8NXP-SL
recognized my SATA drive on soft bootup. But, this morning it stoppe
recognizing it again on restarts. Very Odd....
I emailed Gigabyte on Monday regarding the problem and they got back t
me yesterday (wednesday) with the response attached below.
After reading the reply I'm wondering how installing RAID drivers i
going to help my system when I'm not using the RAID function.
Has anyone out there solved the SATA drive soft boot issue?
Gigabyte's Technical Service Response:
"Hello,
Please follow the steps below to install Windows XP or Windows 2k o
the Nvidia SATA Raid function:
First, you need the motherboard driver CD, a blank floppy diskette, an
a working PC to create a driver disk.
1. Place the motherboard CD into a working PC.
2. Place the blank floppy into the floppy drive.
3. On the motherboard CD, go to " BOOTDRV" folder, and to "Menu" file
double click on the "menu" file, and choose the driver that you need t
make by pressing the number /letter key. For instance, if you want t
create a NVIDIA native RAID driver disk, and the correspondence optio
for the driver is letter "E", all you need to do is insert a goo
floppy diskett to floppy drive then press "E” on the keyboard, and th
PC will copy the driver files onto the diskette for you automatically
Start to load windows , Boot system up with the Windows CD on CDro
when SETUP screen shows press F6 after windows loaded basic drivers
message prompted press S key to specify special driver,press S key an
inset the floppy disk that has the “NVIDIA RAID class driver” an
“Nvidia Nforce Storage Controller” driver load the Nvidia classic Rai
classic driver first then press S again load the Nvidia Nforce storag
controller driver ( need to load two drivers)
follow the instructions on the monitor to complete the O/
installation. After the O/S is installed, install the mother drivers b
placing the mother driver CD into the PC and select the "Expres
Installation" option and click on the "Go" button.
Thank You
--
JBAZ
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